1998-99 Perspectives and Issues: A Perspective on StateExpenditures

The budget proposes spend ing new K-12 funds in a variety of ways, such as increasing the school year to 180 days. Higher Education--The Compact. The 1998-99 budget proposes an increase of $484  million for higher education.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1998/p_and_i_1998/part4_expenditures_overview2_pandi98.html

^[PDF] LAO 1998 Budget Analysis: Capital Outlay Chapter

Projects funded with these bonds must include a 25 percent local match- ing contribution. In the 1997-98 Budget Act, the Legislature reappropriated $17.8 million of the bond funds for 47 local government projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1998/pdfs_anl98/cap_outlay_anl98.pdf

^[PDF] LAO 1998 Budget Analysis: Resources Chapter

In the current year, CIWMB estimates its expenditures for Project Recycle at about $800,000. Under current law, local governments are required to develop and implement plans to divert 25 and 50 percent of waste from landfills by 1995 and 2000, respectively.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1998/pdfs_anl98/resources_anl98.pdf

^[PDF] LAO 1998 Budget Analysis: Transportation Chapter

Additionally, the department licenses and regulates vehicle-related businesses such as automobile dealers and driver training schools, and also provides revenue collection services for state and local agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1998/pdfs_anl98/transportation_anl98.pdf

^[PDF] LAO 1998 Perspectives and Issues: State Fiscal Picture

Instructional Minutes • Lengthens the school day at most middle schools and high schools by requiring schools to exclude the time between class periods (known as “passing time”) from district calculations of in- structional time.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1998/pdfs_pandi98/part_1_fiscal_picture_pandi98.pdf

LAO Analysis of the 1998-99 Budget Bill Departmental Issues #1

These lands total more than four million acres and include tide and submerged lands, swamp and overflow lands, the beds of navigable waterways, and vacant state school lands. The budget proposes total support of the commission in 1998-99 of $17.6  million, including the General Fund ($9.4  million), the Oil Spill Prevention and Administration fund ($5.1  million) and reimbursements ($3.1  million).
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1998/resources_depts1_anl98.html

LAO Analysis of the 1998-99 Budget Bill Resources Departmental Issues #2

This is important information, for example, in light of surveys wh ich found that few school districts implement pest management programs focusing on reduced-risk practices. According to the department, it faces many competing statutory mandates, and therefore, it has to develop its own priorities for its risk assessment and regulatory activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1998/resources_depts2_anl98.html

LAO Analysis of the 1998-99 Budget Bill Transportation Departmental Issues

Current Year Program Funded Solely by SHA. As part of the solution to avert a deficit in MVA for the current year, the Legislature funded the Commercial Vehicle Inspection program fully with SHA in 1997-98.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1998/transportation_depts_anl98.html

Highlights of the 99-00 Analysis of the Budget Bill

This absence of explicit expectations for districts could even lead to counter-producti ve incentives. ( Analysis, page E-69. ) Getting $150 Million to Schools in the Upcoming School Year We recommend that the first appropriations for "Governor's Performance Awards" be in the same fiscal year that, as a practical matter, the awards can be distributed to sc hools (2000-01).
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1999/0299_99-00_highlights.html

1999-00 Perspectives and Issues: State Fiscal Picture

This proposed supplement of general purpose funding--which would continue in years after 1999-00--is intended to partl y compensate school districts for prior years when the state did not fully fund statutory COLAs.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1999/1999_pandi/part1/part1_pandi99.html